[Aurora-sparc-devel] Kernel for 2.98 doesn't build from source rpm

[Dean Anderson]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 03:13 -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > BTW, in sparc32bash, it complains that unifdef is needed (which isn't 
> > part of aurora, so it seems (I haven't looked very hard yet) sigh.
> 
> unifdef is definitely in corona.

I'm not using corona. I'm using 2.98.

> Keep in mind that 2.98 was always intended as a beta.

Beta means 'might crash'. Beta doesn't mean 'unreproducible' binaries.

Every binary package should be reproducible. End. Period. Stop.

If it isn't reproducible, then it is consequently unverifiable, and
consequently UNVERIFIED and UNTRUSTWORTHY.

This is a very serious problem.  I've said this several times, now. No
one seems to be listening.  What's up with that? Is it that you don't
care about security? Or you don't know how to fix the problem?



BTW, I've been looking into koji, and the project claims reproducibility
as one of its features. However, this feature obviously isn't achieved,
since the binary packages can't be reproduced from the source packages.

However, it doesn't seem to send any special arguments to the build. It 
just distributes that build. Nice, but if you don't keep the source 
together, none of that matters.

		--Dean

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